TOP-10 primary and secondary schools in Portugal where international students can get high-quality primary and secondary education

The traditional education system in Portugal involves learning English and Portuguese. This applies both to local residents and to visiting students from other countries, including Russia. To ensure that secondary education in Portugal is affordable and convenient for foreigners, international schools and training centers offer programs with different levels of difficulty - from zero to advanced. This gives schoolchildren and youth the opportunity, after completing training, to know two foreign languages well.

Portugal has several advantages as a country for studying abroad:

• Comfortable conditions for international students. Starting from the mild climate and ending with a friendly atmosphere in general - in Portugal everything has the potential to attract young people from different countries to study, including Russia. The small distances between cities allow students to explore the area in their free time. The educational institutions themselves, whether it is a school, college or university in Portugal, have an almost family atmosphere and you can always count on the support and participation of fellow students or teachers.
• Loyalty for foreign students. So, for admission to the vast majority of educational institutions of the country, schoolchildren and young people do not need to provide a certificate of knowledge of the Portuguese language, although it is state. A foreign student can be accepted to a university even with an initial level of knowledge, provided that he improves his knowledge of the language in additional courses. Teachers are sympathetic to foreign students and do not focus on linguistic flaws.
• Opportunities for building a career. Getting a secondary or higher education in Portugal allows students to learn additional foreign language besides English, which in the future is an excellent competitive advantage - knowledge of Portuguese is highly valued in the international labor market. In addition, a student who knows Portuguese will be able to easily learn close to him - Spanish, for example.

In general, secondary school education in Portugal in this country begins from 5-6 years - this is the stage of pre-school education. Then the young students go on to the stage of primary education, which lasts four years. To receive basic secondary education in Portuguese schools, foreign and Russian students need to unlearn another 5 years after completing the initial stage.

7-9 CLASS

Pupils of grades 7-9 will have a fairly wide list of academic subjects to study:

1) Mandatory:

• information and communication technologies
• English language and literature
• biology
• physics
• maths.

2) Optional, optional:

• French
• economy
• English (as a second language)
• Thai language
• story
• Spanish language
• geography
• chemistry
• Chinese
• graphic design
• math (optional)
• drama
• Russian language
• Dutch Language
• business science
• German
• Portuguese
• the music
• art
• German
• physics.

After successfully completing this course and passing exams, students receive a prestigious IGCSE diploma indicating incomplete secondary education, and can continue their studies at the IB and A-level programs , more complex and advanced.

Although the local education system is European, it is not intended to receive early specialization at the secondary level in Portugal - there is a higher secondary level for this, which not everyone chooses. This is a three-year training course in one of the areas - general education, technology and professional.

As for the size of financial expenses, in Portugal prices are lower than in most European countries - rental housing, lunch in a cafe, the tuition itself and other expenses that nonresident students will have. Life in the capital will cost students about 500-800 euros for one month - and this is the total cost for all items of expenses! Thus, studying in Portugal, even for a long period of time, will not hit the budget very much, and investment in education will be impressive.